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Table 5 POM describing associations between respondent demographic characteristics and agreement with the statement “The New Zealand health system is better to work in compared to the UK system”

From: What motivates doctors to leave the UK NHS for a “life in the sun” in New Zealand; and, once there, why don’t they stay?

 

OR

95% CI

P

Gender

   

 Female

Reference

  

 Male

1.62

1.17–2.26

0.0041*

Age

   

 20–30

Reference

  

 31–40

0.58

0.33–1.02

0.0591

 41–50

0.33

0.14–0.81

0.0155*

 51–60

0.15

0.05–0.45

0.0007*

 61+

0.15

0.04–0.56

0.0049*

Years practising

   

 5 or less years

Reference

  

 6–10 years

1.21

0.68–2.16

0.5211

 11–15 years

0.79

0.38–1.67

0.5396

 16–20 years

0.92

0.35–2.43

0.8589

 21 or more years

1.13

0.41–3.12

0.8121

Main job

   

 General practitioner

Reference

  

 Hospital specialist

2.20

1.36–3.58

0.0014*

 Registrar

2.51

1.50–4.24

0.0005*

 Other

1.26

0.71–2.25

0.4306

  1. Gender, age (categorized), years practising (categorized) and main job were included as variables in the multivariate POM.
  2. *P < 0.05.
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